[Dnsmasq-discuss] [PATCH] fix entries in /etc/hosts disabling static leases

Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant kevin at darbyshire-bryant.me.uk
Wed Jan 16 17:34:52 GMT 2019



> On 12 Jan 2019, at 21:55, Steven Siloti <ssiloti at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It is possible for a config entry to have one address family specified by a
> dhcp-host directive and the other added from /etc/hosts. This is especially
> common on OpenWrt because it uses odhcpd for DHCPv6 and IPv6 leases are
> imported into dnsmasq via a hosts file.

FYI: I’ve just backported this patch (and the missing brackets silly) to Openwrt master where it has apparently already solved one of our other developer’s dhcp lease mystery.

Good catch!  How on earth did you spot it?! :-)

Will wait a couple of days in case of unexpected fallout before updating openwrt-18.06.

Cheers,

Kevin D-B

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